Prewriting for Paper 4

I still keep a journal and I write in it every once in a while. I have kept this journal since I was 9 years old. The other day I read some of my past journal entries from when I was much younger. I read this one entry,(I remember this day very vividly), when I was playing in a playground at a soccer field while my mother was playing soccer. I remember seeing this little girl, a few years younger than me, and she was getting pushed down and kicked by an older boy. He threw her down and repeatedly kicked sand in her face. I immediately ran over and yelled for him to stop. He wouldn't, so I took the little girl and told her she could stay with me until her mother came.

I want to write about my first experience of seeing abuse in the world. Before this incident, I had no idea that it existed and was horrified that anyone could do this to another person. I have never experienced any abuse in my life, and my parents never even explained it to me until I witnessed it first hand. I think that abuse is an issue that should be raised and not be taken lightly.

My father is a detective of the special victims squad in Nassau County on Long Island. He deals with child abuse cases all the time, and I would like to talk to him and incorporate what he thinks about the abuse cases why he never educated me about the topic of abuse. In my paper I want to incorporate some opinions on abuse that my dad has and why he never revealed this part of the world to me. I think that people and even children should be more educated about the topic so that they will know what to do when they encounter it.